Paterson Rangers was a U.S. soccer team which played in Paterson, New Jersey

Paterson, New Jersey

Paterson is a city serving as the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, its population was 146,199, rendering it New Jersey's third largest city and one of the largest cities in the New York City Metropolitan Area, despite a decrease of 3,023...

 during the early twentieth century. They spent two seasons in New York’s Metropolitan Association Football League and nine in the National Association Football League

History

The origins of the Paterson Rangers is unknown, but they entered the Metropolitan Association Football League for the 1904-1905 season and on April 25, 1905 lost to the New York Caledonians in the semifinals of the New York State Cup. In 1906, the Rangers joined the professional National Association Football League and remained in that league until 1915. No records for the Rangers exist after that year.

Year-by-year

Year	League	Standing	American Cup
1904/05	MAFL	?	?
1905/06	MAFL	?	?
1906/07	NAFBL	6th	?
1907/08	NAFBL	2nd	?
1908/09	NAFBL	6th	?
1909/10	NAFBL	7th	Third round
1910/11	NAFBL	3rd	?
1911/12	NAFBL	4th	Final
1912/13	NAFBL	8th	First Round
1913/14	NAFBL	5th	?
1914/15	NAFBL	7th	?

Honors

League Championship

• Runner Up (1): 1908

American Cup

American Cup

The American Cup was the first major U.S. soccer competition open to teams beyond a single league. It was first held in 1885. In the 1910s, it gradually declined in importance with the establishment of the National Challenge Cup...

• Runner Up (1): 1912

Clan MacDonald Cup

• Winner (1): 1909

External links

• National Association Football League standings